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I’m reminded of being a young guy, a teenager, and I was fascinated with books, but I couldn’t afford many of them because they were so expensive. So I would go into Robin’s bookstore in…

Today is March 9th, it is a Monday. There are a dozen and more deficiencies that represent the Virginia Department of Corrections and its Virginia Model: Dangerous overcrowding of its prisons, all of which are substandard…

Today I’d like to read short prose that I wrote and then kind of explain where that comes from.  Title is, “I’ve Taken Off My Mask.”  I’ve taken off my mask so I can see…

Peace. This is KnowledgeBorn GodAllah, calling from Solano State Prison.  I want to first send a shout out to all those brothers that I grew up with on death row who are now at home:…

As bombs explode and wreak havoc across the Middle East, one wonders, what will come of this? This question arises because of events that happened over seventy years ago, 1953 to be exact. When spies…

What’s really behind the war that’s happening on our TV screens and on our devices? In a word, it’s money. When you think about what happened in Venezuela, think not of the kidnapping of the…

My name is Christopher Hill. I have a piece that I want to read called, “Question From a Juvenile Offender.” I had a conversation with a few of my family members about juvenile lifers being…

Today, I want to tell you that I’m joyous and celebrating. It might seem strange for somebody that received death by incarceration from a parole board, but a young woman in her 20s with stage…

This is Larry Stromberg, SCI Phoenix in Pennsylvania. This is my play entitled, “There’s a Ghost In My Cell”. I gotta tell you something- I’m not crazy, I’m not on medication. This stuff is real.…

Hey, Steven Lynn Nicholson again here in Jackson, Michigan. As always, support prisonradio.org, Prisoner Creative Arts Program out of University of Michigan. I may promote this again, but I’m promoting it again now, March 22,…

Hello. This is, “Gratitude.” Today is March 2nd, it’s a Monday. Aside from my usual fare of reporting and exposing the Virginia DOC, every once in a while, you have to take a step back…

It’s their annual book that they do. It’s really cool, and so they’re going to allow my family to come and do a public reading at the University of Michigan, so that’s really awesome. I…

Hello, this is Karen. I’m recovering from surgery still and feeling a little rough, but today I wanted to share a poem that may give a little insight to who I am, and others. We’re…

Ladies and Gentlemen, film screening this Saturday, February 28th. The title is, All That’s Left, a film by Yehuda Shireen. It’s sponsored by the Coalition for Justice and the Henry Luce Foundation, at the Bird…

Hey, this is KnowledgeBorn GodAllah, calling from Solano State Prison. I want all the people to know that I appreciate prisonradio.com. I appreciate my podcast on prisonradio.com, KPOO, 5% Nation of Gods and Earths, and…

Hey, this is Steven Nicholson again, here in Jackson, Michigan. Just shouting out prisonradio.org, you know, donate, help them out. Think of it as doing something for, you know, the little people that can’t do…

Update: More Virginia model examples of decades of failure.  Today is February 23, 2026. We have more updates from inside the Virginia Department of Correction. And it must be said, the destruction being perpetrated by…

This is Sean Galloway, ex-Bay. C h i i i r p. I’m calling from River North Correctional Prison in Western Virginia, Western Region, Virginia, on 11/17/ 2025. An officer was killed here by the…

You know, Trump is really, I think, at bottom, a very simple man. And I think he thinks with a bully’s consciousness, and, you know, attack any institution that humiliated him, questioned him or criticized…

Well, I think the danger comes from normalizing the visuals of military, masked, heavily armed troops on American streets. And you know, this is a man who has a fixation about the military, even though…

You know, people always criticize the Congress, or at least the Republicans in Congress, for being too supine and too prostrative when it comes to the President. Well, I don’t think it’s fair to really…

Mumia Abu-Jamal: Good Morning in America.  Noelle Hanrahan: It’s frightening and terrifying, and time to step up.  Mumia Abu-Jamal: Yeah, absolutely, you heard about that Don Lemon?  Noelle Hanrahan: Yes, I did.  Mumia Abu-Jamal: [Chuckling]…

Hi y’all. We’re supposed to be here to celebrate the 73rd birthday of Kamau Sadiki, a Black political prisoner, a former member of the Black Panther Party, in New York and in other parts of…